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Kurt Mackey

Kurt Mackey is the CEO of MongoHQ. Prior to joining MongoHQ, Mackey was the technical director for Ars Technica at Conde Nast, and before that, he was the director of research and development at ServerCentral. He received his education from the University of Oklahoma, Norman Campus.

Developers are continually upping the ante by creating better, smarter and
more valuable apps. However, these apps also have increasingly sophisticated
data requirements, and the ability to take them to the next level may be
stymied by an archaic approach to databases in which developers are required
to either make serious compromises about how they store and query their data,
or learn to manage their own data infrastructure.
Increasingly sophisticated data requirements
Mobile apps, for instance, typically require a great deal of user-provided
and contextual data to function, as compared to what a stationary computer
would have collected 10 years ago. The data that's being collected is
frequently well suited for a particular type of database, but a bad fit for
another. While MongoDB, for example, handles most of what a mobile app
requires, such as the geodata that a... (more)